Slick Chic

Raoul Dufy is the 71-year-old granddaddy
of modem chic. His personal blend of bright, carelessly smeared colors
with shorthand draftsmanship is imitated in chichi perfume ads and
fashion magazines month after month. Last week gallery-goers in Paris
and Manhattan could see the real thing: paintings from Dufy's palsied
but still brilliant hand and (in Paris) tapestries woven from his
designs. The tapestries, reported Paris' Combat, were "a triumphal
success . . . pure art."

So were the paintingsalmost too successful. Dufy never lets nature
trouble him; he uses it, like a seasoned...